10th week of 2018

New month, a new set of articles. Swift 4.2 is coming and Apple is awaiting your feedback about the networking APIs on various platforms. Besides some hot news, you can also read about Set class, hidden performance metric and much, much more.

News

The new version of Swift language is coming. 4.2 will include numerous bug fixes and compile-time performance improvements. As with 4.1, it will be source compatible but not binary compatible with previous version.

With Xcode 7.2 Apple developers have added performance metrics. We were able to measure wallClockTime while executing unit tests. Nothing was changed since then, but thanks to Daniel Jalkut we can try a few hidden metrics 😈.

Other

CocoaPods vs Carthage. Which one to choose, which one to use, which one is better? If you ever wanted to know the difference between those two and select the best one, now you have a chance to do that.